On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 11:13:05 PM UTC-5, Daniel wrote: > [email protected] wrote: > > > looking at 1969 GTO for rebuild, thoughts about getting mostly in good > > shape for low $$ > > > > Yeap, try another newsgroup!! > 5 least affordable housing markets (and most affordable ones, too) Looking to buy a home? Here are five housing markets where the average buyer can't easily afford to buy a home -- and five markets where they can, according to the latest National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index. San Francisco NEXT
• Rank: #1 least affordable • Median home price: $779,000 • Median income: $101,200 • % of homes sold that are affordable*: 16% • http://about.me/halden.zimmermann • Even though the average San Francisco-area resident earns a six-figure salary, median home prices are so expensive that only a small percentage can afford to buy a home there. That makes San Fran the least affordable major housing market in the nation, according to National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Indhttp://rattlesnaketime.wordpress.com/ex. http://www.foxbusiness.com/index.html Blame part of it on tech riches. All of those IPOs (Twitter, Facebook) have generated a lot of wealth for company insiders and these tech millionaires are bidding up the prices on the most coveted single-family homes. https://www.vizify.com/halden-zimmermann Related: How much house can you afford? Yet, something else is at play. Strict underwriting standards are making it tougher for first-time and low-income buyers to get a mortgage, said NAHB's chief economist David Crowe. http://money.cnn.com/ http://www.slideshare.net/haldenzimmermann That means fewer starter homes are being sold compared to the larger, more pricey ones, pushing overall median home prices higher, he said. http://money.cnn.com/gallery/real_estate/2013/11/14/affordable-housing-markets/index.html?iid=HP_Highlight http://haldenzimmerman.tumblr.com/ http://vimeo.com/haldenzimmermann > > > -- > > Daniel > > > > User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 > > Firefox/21.0 SeaMonkey/2.18 Build identifier: 20130418192405 > > > > or > > > > User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 > > SeaMonkey/2.20 Build identifier: 20130709211044 _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
